1749. Chesterf., Lett., II. ccvii. 288. The animal and constitutional courage of a foot-soldier … is oftener improperly … exerted, but always brutally.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 283. I have always despised the brutally vulgar.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xxxvi. IV. 433. He now acted still more brutally towards the Argeian priest.
1871. Morley, Voltaire (1878), 123. Swift is often truculent and brutally gross.
